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Winchester Mystery House |
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525 Winchester Blvd., San Jose 95128 • 408-247-2000
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~3.49 mi |
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Winchester Mystery House is a mansion with a remarkable history. Sarah Winchester, heiress of the Winchester Rifle fortune, moved from Connecticut to San Jose in 1884 and bought a small farmhouse. Convinced by a medium that its expansion would exorcise the spirits of those killed by the rifle, she kept builders laboring on the house 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for 38 years, until her death in 1922. The result is a bizarre complex of 160 rooms, including stairs that lead nowhere and windows set into floors.
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Intel Museum |
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Intel Corporation's Robert Noyce Buildin 2200 Mission College Boulevard, Santa Clara 95052 • 408-765-0503
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~5.51 mi |
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At the Intel Museum in Santa Clara, you can experience the power of computer chips first hand, and the evolution of their development. Explore the pages of the site and interact with their Web movies to learn more about the museum and computer chips.
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Paramount's Great America Amusement Park |
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2401 Agnew Rd., Santa Clara 95052 • 408-998-1776
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~5.89 mi |
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The best amusement park in Northern California packs a wide variety of attractions into its 100-acre site. The park is divided into several different areas, each one designed to evoke various regions of the United States. Along with high-speed roller coasters many rides incorporate themes from films and television shows produced by Paramount Studios. Open-air pop concerts are often held on summer evenings in the large amphitheater.
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Stanford University |
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Junipero Serra St., Palo ALto 94305 • 650-723-2560
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~17.53 mi |
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Among the most pleasant of the Bay Area suburbs, the town of Palo Alto grew up specifically to serve Stanford University, one of the most reputed centers of higher education in the country. Founded by the railroad tycoon Leland Stanford in honor of his son who died in 1885 at the age of 16, Stanford University opened in 1891. The campus occupies the former Stanford family farm, covering 8,200 acres (3,320 ha)at the foot of the coastal mountains-larger than the entire downtown district of San Francisco. It was designed in a mixture of Romanesque and Mission styles by the architect Frederick Law Olmsted, and its sandstone buildings and numerous arcades are capped by red-tiled roofs. At the heart of the university campus is the Main Quadrangle, where the Memorial Church is decorated with a gold-leaf and tile mosaic. Also on the campus is the Stanford Museum of Art. This small but intriguing museum holds one of the largest collections of sculptures by Auguste Rodin.
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Monterey Bay Aquarium |
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886 Cannery Row, Monterey 93940 • 831-648-4800
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~49.43 mi |
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Travelers who haven’t been to the Monterey Bay Aquarium recently—even within just the past year—are missing the one-of-a-kind exhibits that make the aquarium one of the best in the world. Visitors in 2003 will also find two unprecedented special exhibitions—one winding down and the other in full swing—at the world-acclaimed facility, which enters into its 20 th year in October.
The aquarium is one of the top reasons people visit the Monterey
In just the past year, the aquarium has:
•Introduced two young sea otters—Mae and Rosa—to the public
•Opened the imaginative “Jellies: Living Art” to visitor and critical acclaim
•Introduced scalloped hammerhead sharks and dolphinfish to the million-gallon Outer
Bay display. The exhibit contains the most diverse open-ocean community at any
aquarium in the world, and is also one of the few with giant bluefin tuna.
For visitors, 2003 is the last chance to see the mesmerizing deep sea creatures in
“Mysteries of the Deep,” which closes September 2.
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La Rochelle Winery |
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3000 Abonrd Road, San Jose 95135 • 408-274-4000
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La Rochelle's warm hospitality is as famous as their wines.The historic home of America’s oldest winemaking family is conveniently located in the foothills of San Jose, halfway between San Francisco and Monterey. Tasting and tours are offered daily. Candlelight Dinners, Cooking Classes, the Holiday Festival and the Echoes Concert Series are all open to the public.
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